"A great lathe operator commands several times..." - Quote by Bill Gates

“I'm a geek.”

“If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!”

“Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause - and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it?”

“There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice.”

“Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in terms of overbooking and fares, and different airlines communicating with each or schedule changes, it's immensely complex. And so you can't write a program that's any simpler than that full specification.”

“Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.”

“The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.”

“True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.”

“A thing is important if anyone think it important.”